Allenby bridge shooter identified as Jordanian national

A Jordanian citizen on Sunday shot and killed three Israelis in an attack near the Allenby Bridge border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.

Israeli media identified the shooter as Maher Dhiab Hussein al-Jazi, 39, from the southern Jordanian town of Udrah in Maan governorate, a town that supplied troops to fight in the 1948 Battle of Jerusalem.

Jazi is a descendant of Maher al-Jazi, the commander of the Jordanian army in the 1968 “Karameh” battle between Israeli forces and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Jordanian armed forces.

The Israeli military said Jazi "approached the area in a truck from Jordan, exited the truck, and opened fire at the Israeli security forces operating at the bridge” before he was shot dead.

Three Israeli civilians were pronounced dead at the scene after a military medical team had performed resuscitation efforts, the Israeli military said.

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